According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC is desperate for new sitcom ideas and is soliciting pitches for shows to fast-track onto its primetime schedule by midseason. Help out the House of Joey, folks. Pitch your idea here, in 25 words or less (TV execs have short attention spans). Include casting suggestions. Try to stay away from suggesting shows about young singles in New York or series adapted from British shows; those wells have run dry.
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a show about a struggling writer and his editor, trying to think of new story ideas.
Set in a senior citizen’s home, this “Scrubs”-esque show revolves around the constant, yet hilarious, clashes between the aging residents and the young exasperated staff. Interspersed with moments of heartbreak and hope, this is sure to be one touching comdey.
A show about teens and staff in a Northeastern boarding school. This could give the writers an oppurtunity to go into depth with many characters and have multiple storylines.
Me& My Kids or “Yeah” Eight is Enough!!
A show about my eight kids, 3 baby mothers and me(age 39) and a soon to be ex-wife. Children Ages 9 to Nineteen
All true.
A sitcom where age is reversed. All adults are actually kids and little kids are actually the adults. That means you’re born at 80 and die on your birthdate. It could be funny to see the structure in a home given this situation!
How about a Science Fiction Reality tv spoof?
They cast ex members of all the campy sci fi tv shows in roles very similar to who they used to play. For example, Lexa Doig as an android, Adam Baldwin as a big mean gun toting thug, some square jawed dude as the captain, the token minority characters from the Star Trek shows, and of course, Timothy Dalton as the host of your show.
The plot? All these people are stuck in a space ship, and they are being videotaped on their continuing mission, kind of a “Real World” meets “Curb your enthusiasm” meets “Star Trek”.
The scthick is that the camera crew is totally expendable, and in every episode a few members of the crew (and maybe the guest stars) get killed in some gruesome manner. The cast then bumbles around for another half hour, comes up with some hair brained scheme, and that will occasionally work.
For the pilot episode, you do a spoof of Jason X, and you work your way up from there. An episode where the Captain gets space herpes from the green skinned women of Venus. Another episode in which the Black Vulcan gets upset that there aren’t more Black people in space. In another episode, the gay android gets in a fight with “trip” from Enterprise (who guest stars as the space redneck rockabilly cowboy).
Yo, NBC, hit me up already! My show is about nothing and I know you guys love that…
I worked at a credit card bank that primarily hired people 22-30 years old. Set the sitcom in an office-space type environment surrounded by co-ed beauties that are all about social climbing. I have 5 seasons in my head already. It would have the office comedy of the movie Office Space (they even had hawaiian shirt night!) the social climbing of The Apprentice (and the comedy that would come through) with the Desperate Housewives/Melrose Place undertone of the cheating wives and husbands. Its a can’t miss!
Two roommates drop out of a well-to-do college to try and create their own nightclub in an otherwise boring suburban community.
“The Donut Hole” – a comedy ala “Ed” – where we following the trials and tribulations of odd donut shop employees and their odd customers.
A show based on an Advise Columnist – who actually touches on these real life situations to deliver the best solutions…It can have heart, comedy and drama, based on the question initiating each weeks advise column (content). Call it “Situation Sally” make it wholesome for families – something TV is sadly lacking in. There’s plenty out there real people need help with that doesn’t include sex…
How about a show where a guy runs an antique store, and people come in and he gets involved with their lives?
Or even better one about a guy who coaches gymnastics at a highschool. He is married and he has a son who has no interest in gymnastics???
Comedy along the lines of Entourage but the actors/friends are struggling…with everything.
A 23 year old woman graduates college planning to start teaching and stay far away from her family (300 miles). Student loans pile up and she moves back home with her mom (crazy and wants to see her married), dad (laid back but supportive), and sister (15, outgoing, and starting high school the same year her older sister is in her first year of teaching at the same school). The mix of the characters and new, uncertain situations is bound to create chaos and laughs.
Stay at home mom (2 little kids). Family just moved from Southern California to a small town in the NorthEast.They moved to be close to a large extended (crazy)family.
Cast Suggestion: Mid 30’s actress..Maybe Jennifer Anniston..
Two male best friends decide to move from their small town out to LA to try and make it in the entertainment industry. One wants to be an actor and one a musician. When they get out there they realize they can’t afford to live on their own and room up with a gay interior designer and a female model. Then the show just shows them trying to make it.
Janet Evanovich’s book series featuring bounty-hunter (and complete spaz) Stephanie Plum would make a great sitcom. Her never-ending love triangle with loyal, Trenton cop Joe Morelli and sexy (and dangerous) bounty-hunter Ranger is compelling. Not to mention her hilarious crime fighting antics: I would love to watch a bounty-hunter who ends up being the hunted nearly every time.
A show about a recently Grad Student working in the Graduate office of a University. Cast includes laid-back staff, uptight faculty and myriad of current students, nervous applicants and long-shot applicants. Hilarity ensues…
How about just giving a decent amount of promotion to the quality shows that they have? Joey and Will & Grace get two or three episodes every Thursday, but no sign of The Office (I know, it’s not as good as the BBC version, but on its own merits it’s pretty funny) or Scrubs, which deserves massive promotion and accolades (Hey Sean Hayes, John C. McGinley called; you have his Emmy nomination). I know they have a lot of money riding on Joey, but W & G shoulda been put out of its misery about two years ago.
This is easy. Make a sitcom about the crew on a reality show. The difficulty in not interracting too much, their ideas on who will do what. It’s simple but I am sure you exec’s can fill in this blanks.
We are growing bored with the reality shows. But not bored with another a satire of it.
Set in a frathouse in the northeast, the show involves the highjinks of the pledges, the brothers who torture, and the sister soritity who teases the boys, as each episode is a week in the life of this house. Think around november sweeps, who will make the frat and who won’t? Think old school meets the nerds meets freaks and geeks. Add in the pressure of the dean/faculty who thinks all frats do is party and wants to shut them down, all the skirt chasing and partying, pledge highjinks and all the young hot frat guys and you have yourself a 18-34 demographic heavan. Casting…think Jenson Ackles as the cool guy, Jay Baruchel as the dorky pledge, and Busy Phillips/Kristen Bell (if V Mars is cancelled) as the hot sorority sister everyone wants and can’t have. When else would you have an excuse to name a frat Mu Mu Zi?
Hot Tops a show about a salon full of colorful stylist. Older gay salon owner, new sassy apprentice sweeping the floors, the bizarre clientele, along with the mishap hairdos they cut.
Evil Dead – The Continuing Adventures of Ash, starring Bruce Campbell. Now in his 40’s, we still find Ash working at S-Mart during the day, while he fights demons, zombies, monsters, and all kinds of evil spirits after dark. This show would only work with Bruce Campbell as the star, though.
Or maybe The Young Elvis Chronicles – sorta a prequel to Bubba Ho-Tep. This would also star Bruce Campbell as a young(er) Elvis Pressley. Elvis romances women, performes his classics, acts in movies, while also fighting demons, zombies, monsters, and all kinds of evil spirits.
Basically, any show starring King Campbell would be a winner!
NBC needs a show about an insurance claims office and the dynamic between employees, employees and bosses and the unique and anxious claimants that cause adjusters the need to be regulars at local watering holes. This show, named “Pending”, will depict “a typical day” of a claims adjuster will draw some laughs. And,maybe, get a few people to stop screaming at the claims adjuster regarding the time it takes to settle a claim.
A show about a computer helpdesk in a big company like G.E. 10 -12 people who handle the everyday problems of their users. The stupid/funny calls they get and each episode could also work in a way to fix certain common computer problems. Hey, everyone has a computer these days. You could follow their lives after work like Happy Hours or picnics at someone house were they get a chance to bust on their users without any chance of getting in trouble. It could be a real hit. Trust me I live it everyday… Later
B&B
A senior couple owns and manages a small Bed & Breakfast somewhere in beach town CA. Casting: Doris Roberts as the wife. The husband manages the B&B but he is actually micro managed by his dominant (and nosy) wife. They take charge of overall housekeeping but have a chef/cook (who thinks she is the next Martha Stewart) and a part time handyman (also part time lifeguard). Guest stars are the people who rent the 3 rooms in the B&B. B&B guests meet, dine together, share bathrooms and interact with ever enthusiastic hosts & their staff.
First off, these ideas are all REALLY good, I do hope someone from NBC is reading… My idea is for a show called “Mothers & Lovers” about two Las Vegas 30-something women whose romantic lives are constantly interrupted by their wacky mothers… everyone can relate and could also have warm moments between two female generations…
A combination sitcom/drama called “Stolen”
Gavin Dane is a successful pickpocket who decides to journal his escapades via a laptop. Soon, his journal becomes a novel that he submits, has published and it becomes a best seller. He is now a writer and a thief…! What he does next would make a successful series…it is limitless…!
A drama about the life of young man, who is seen as perfect by his friends and family but has a deep dark secret. He is a serial killer, and slowly killing off many in the area (lets say LA). 1 hour show with half dealing with the young man and the other half dealing with the local police. Only people i can think of for this would be, a no name 20 something year old actor, another teen age actor and young boy to cover the early years. Ed O’Neill from Married with Children as a cop…Run the show at 10 pm on Tuesday nights, because of profanity, brief nudity and graphic violence.
Upon turning 16 Amish kids are given the opportunity to leave their community to experience the outside world until they can decide whether or not they want to commit themselves to the religion forever.
Some do and others become Crystal Meth dealers. This is perfect for a comedy because what’s funnier then Amish and what’s funnier then Crystal Meth!!!
The Fellas
What’s a cooky premise if the shows not funny? This show is Sex and the City meets Seinfeld. Four guys living in Boston going out on the weekends. No cute kids. No wacky boss. No moral at the end telling you that running with scissors after drinking a beer is wrong. You have a White guy, a Hispanic guy, an African American guy, and Ed. The pilot involves sex, Chinese food, night vision goggles and a miniature bulldog. What more can you ask for?
Possible cast: Josh Jackson, Will Friedle, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jay Fernandez, Norris Young